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Mac Mini

Here's a question for all you Apple-lovers out there.

When I initially mentioned I was thinking about getting an apple mac mini for development purposes, people suggested I wait until it goes to intel architecture. That's sensible, I can see the theory behind waiting so that I won't have to upgrade in the future - I don't particularly want one mac, let alone two. But here's a question - when I have my new intel-based mac mini, how can I be sure that what I develop will work on pre-intel macs?

I don't know anything about ...

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Yay

Apparently I'm not the only person who's been having problems with their computers today.

The National Trust, the Inland Revenue and the National Insurance Office all told me that they could not help me with my problems because their computers were down, so I have to ring them back tomorrow.

Something I didn't mention was the new cordless telephones I have bought. They are quite nice - I bought a twin pack, so I can now call Leela's handset up when she's in the other room.

I also forgot to say that Leela's mini ipod ...

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The Entropy Is Strong With This One

The plan for today was quite straightforward. Wake up, shower, do some work on the flash CD, and contact a few more companies about my change of address. Unfortunately, things started to go wrong after 'wake up'. I have no entropy.

I have a script that monitors web-pages and e-mails me when there is a change - useful for making sure my sites haven't gone wrong and watching out for changes to other pages on the internet that I'm interested in. Since the move, the server it was running on is now permanently offline, so I decided to move ...

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YAFB (Yet Another Flash Bug)

I finished writing a new ActionScript class to control my custom slide bars and tried to compile it. I got the following error:

The name of this class, 'Slider', conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded, 'Slider'.
I have just spent another hour going over it trying to find what could possibly be wrong. I only loaded it once, and I couldn't find an in-built class called Slider, so what else could it be?

Well, apparently, it's the timestamp of my class definition file. My desktop clock is set at 09:12, my server clock ...

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